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class="available-ntent"><div dir="to" class="body markup"><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="726" height="544.5" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" fetchprry="high" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn">Artwork by Maya Rama Tatikola</figptn></figure></div><h4 class="hear-wh-anchor-widget"><span>This year, right before missg each other would e to fe our world, I started noticg the word “yearng” poppg up across queer </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">onle spac</a><span>. Yearng-related </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">posts</a><span>, </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">referenc</a><span>, </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">and</a><span> </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">mem</a><span> creasgly flood my timele and nversatns daily and beme pable March, as quarante set across the globe. To summarize a meme: “</span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">yearn thoughts head gay.</a><span>” </span><div id="§this-year-right-before-missg-each-other-would-e-to-fe-our-world-i-started-noticg-the-word-yearng-poppg-up-across-queer-onle-spac-yearng-related-posts-referenc-and-mem-creasgly-flood-my-timele-and-nversatns-daily-and-beme-pable--march-as-quarante-set--across-the-globe-to-summarize--a-meme-yearn-thoughts-head-gay" class="hear-anchor-widget offset-top"><div class="hear-anchor-widget-button-ntaer"><div href=" class="hear-anchor-widget-button"><svg xmlns=" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="hear-anchor-widget-in"><path d="M10 13a5 5 0 0 0 7.54.54l3-3a5 5 0 0 0-7.07-7.07l-1.72 1.71"></path><path d="M14 11a5 5 0 0 0-7.54-.54l-3 3a5 5 0 0 0 7.07 7.07l1.71-1.71"></path></svg></div></div></div></h4><p>Almost a year , as social distancg domat our liv and people joke that makg -person eye ntact feels more timate than sex, all that yearng seems prcient. We’re yearng for each other, for better news, for better tim—and we’re dreamg about what that might look like.</p><p><span>Yearng’s legacy for margalized people as a fg state of beg, one that n eher brg joy or sufferg, is tied to the rilience of the muni: to ntue dreamg spe of opprsn, illns, and ath. Before the onset of the ronavis, the stat quo nied time to dream, </span><em>bee </em><span> is a polil necsy. In her 1990 book of says, </span><em>Yearng: Race, Genr, and Cultural Polics</em><span>, bell hooks wrote, “All too often our polil sire for change is seen as separate om longgs and passns that nsume lots of time and energy daily life… Surely our sire for radil social change is timately lked wh the sire to experience pleasure, erotic fulfillment, and a host of other passns.”</span></p><p>Pg whout expectatn of -person nsummatn is the semi-universal standard for csh and new romanc durg COVID-19. For LGBTQ people, romanticizg the distance—physil or otherwise, like the distance created by the closet—between and the objects of our sire is a longstandg tradn. </p><p>Many of spent this year intifyg the yawng gap between the world we live and the world we need. Queer yearng’s long years of practice, and sense of joy the procs, n be stctive panmic tim.</p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="540" height="304" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn"><span>via </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Tumblr</a></figptn></figure></div><p>---</p><p>“The experience of yearng is more acute for queer people overall,” said Eve Ng, Associate Profsor Media Arts and Studi and Women's, Genr, and Sexualy Studi at Oh Universy, whose rearch foc on LGBTQ media. </p><p>Ey Grobe, 21, om the Chigoland area, who intifi wh the trend, said, "I thk queer people have had the feelgs for much longer than the general populatn bee of the stggl associated wh beg queer. There's this element of nostalgia for tim we haven't been allowed to have.” </p><p><span>I was a baby gay durg the late 2000s and early 2010s, where the most accsible pictns of queer women to me were </span><em>Blue Is The Warmt Color</em><span>, </span><em>Black Swan </em><span>(lol), and the UK show </span><em>Sks</em><span>. I was ed to seeg relatnships between women reprented as hypersexual, exoticized, or superficial. But as I watched the two stars make eye ntact across crowd rooms </span><em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Portra of a Lady on Fire</a></em><span>, my pulse quickened—the two women hadn’t even touched. There’s somethg rebell fdg pleasure and excement feelgs historilly meant to ighten and separate . </span></p><p><span>After, I noticed a siar kd of yearng </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">straight historil romanc</a><span>, the clenchg of hands </span><em>Emma </em><span>and the 2005 </span><em>Pri and Prejudice.</em><span> This tensn and longg overlaps neatly wh how queer romantic and sexual experienc n feel for many people, pecially now. For Hunter Blas, 25, “yearng” feels extrible om her inty as a WLW. “What I love about [yearng] is the quietns of , the subtlety,” she said. “Yearng is subtle and leav room for terpretatn on if ’s romantic or platonic. I love perd piec about love between two women bee feels like that general subtle sire, but dialed up."</span></p><p><span>If you glance at TikTok, Twter, or Tumblr (which, sce s ceptn, has kept a home for the gays), queer yearng is everywhere. Through very onle yearng queer ey, </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Jane Aten manifts</a><span> social distancg, scen om </span><em>Killg Eve </em><span>and </span><em>Euphoria </em><span>and </span><em>The Handmain </em><span>show </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">women starg at each other bed whout touchg</a><span>, and Tumblr gays create </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">a new visual language</a><span> after porn was taken away. (By November, even the </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">rporate Twter acunts</a><span> got on the fun.)</span></p><p><span>The “ttagere” trend is another visual tie- to queer yearng, </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">both popular</a><span> among onle WLWs and foced on feelgs of softns and romance. Grobe nnected the two; to her, both evoke explicly-queer pism. "There’s a sire to pe to somethg simpler—green space, growg veggi, low tech livg," she said. "Everyone is gog through such a tough time the world, and there’s this llective wish to strip ourselv of morny and start over."</span></p><p><span>In large part, queer yearng manifts through </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">mic</a><span>, wh </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">a proliferatn</a><span> of </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">“gay yearng” playlists</a><span> and TikToks. Bch's Rachel Charlene Lewis wonred </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">whether or not Taylor Swift's </a><em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">folklore</a></em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"> is queer</a><span>, given how promently yearng featur as a theme. (Swift has sce clarified that was tend </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">om a straight perspective</a><span>, but not before </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Vulture's Madison Malone Kirchner</a><span>, among others, clared queer non.) </span></p><p><span>Last summer, on a drive wh some WLW iends, I listened to </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Hozier</a><span> for the first time and unrstood why the ter </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">wouldn’t stop</a><span> </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">llg him</a><span> </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">a lbian</a><span>. His mic is fed by </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">pg</a><span>, so much so that lbians feel </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"> belongs to them</a><span>. No wonr there’s so many vios of </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Hozier’s voice pched up</a><span>, advertised along the l of "</span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Hozier as an Irish woodland lbian sgg about her lover</a><span>."</span></p><p>Though reprentatn of queer and trans people pop culture has spiked recent years, ’s still the mory, and the long tradn of LGBTQ fans “queerg” media ntu. “A lot of queer media ers ntue to ascribe queer inti to celebri who are probably straight —hello, Taylor Swift!" said Ng. “While the fanworks n provi enjoyment, 's not the same as havg nonilly queer reprentatn. So even fandoms wh hugely productive fan wrers and artists are still marked by a lot of yearng.”</p><div class="ptned-image-ntaer"><figure><a class="image-lk is-viewable-img image2" target="_blank" href=" data-ponent-name="Image2ToDOM" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"><div class="image2-set"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" /><img src=" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{"src":"" class="sizg-normal" alt srcset=" 424w, 848w, 1272w, 1456w" siz="100vw" loadg="lazy" /></picture><div class="image-lk-expand"><svg xmlns=" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="#FFFFFF" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="luci luci-maximize2"><polyle pots="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyle><polyle pots="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyle><le x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></le><le x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></le></svg></div></div></a><figptn class="image-ptn"><span>Hozier at a show holdg a lbian pri flag, </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">via Tumblr</a></figptn></figure></div><p>---</p><p><span>People are still yearng, too, for a way of life that isn't actively punive, threateng or exhstg. In her newsletter </span><em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">close but not que</a></em><span>, discsg yearng as ristance to life unr palism, Mary Retta scribed as “an act of rare imagatn to envisn a world where all of your needs are met when you have only known life circumstanc of burn or srcy." </span></p><p><span>In that way, some see queer yearng as a balm for experiencg homophobia. “It’s seeg the potential for your life as an out and proud [queer person], but also havg to live day-to-day as someone pletely different om who you are," said Kaye, an 18-year-old Virgia whose name has been changed here bee she's the closet. "That’s not as much fun as makg 'yearng' </span><em>Pri and Prejudice</em><span> jok, but feels like the same emotn on a different sle.”</span></p><p>“My t and my stove aren't gog to misgenr me or qutn my inty,” said Kira Vishnya, 21, who liv St. Petersburg, Rsia. “I am a male-aligned non-bary person who lov men, and [I've] experienced lots of rejectn. Romanticizg yearng and pg is a great pg mechanism: If I get to be dramatic about , I feel like a perd drama character, and they mostly get happy endgs. It mak me feel like I'm gog to get me too, eventually.”</p><p>Given that queer people of lor, and queer Black people particular, are disproportnately subject to unequal "life circumstanc of burn or srcy," as Retta wrote, 's jarrg how much of the ntent associated wh queer yearng featur whe people. I asked Ng if she thought that race and class might be tied to who feels most entled to yearn, across the sexualy spectm; she speculated that might be the se for those who “n yearn for a pastoral 'past' om the perspective of a digal prent, or have time and money to buy gredients to bake om scratch and so on, ways more likely to be unavailable to people of lor.” </p><p><span>In one sense, is a privilege to take pleasure yearng, stead of associatg wh pa, cludg for queer folks. Durg the AIDS epimic, fear and illns domated gay romantic disurse; then, too, people of lor, and Black people particular, disproportnately bore the bnt of illns. </span><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">In an April episo of the </a><em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">New York Tim</a></em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener"> podst </a><em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">Still Procsg</a></em><a href=" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">,</a><span> culture crics Jenna Wortham and Wley Morris revised the 2012 documentary </span><em>How to Survive A Plague</em><span>, which is about the rise of ACT UP rponse to the AIDS crisis, the ntext of COVID-19. “There are a lot of ways which this moment is siar to what was happeng 25, 30, 35 years ago, and one of those ways... [is] the fact that we n’t touch each other,” observed Morris. </span></p><p><span>Even as our circumstanc are limed by ernment failur and panmic, yearng is an opportuny for the kd of “rare imagatn” Retta wrote about on a polil level. “The U.S. socpolil landspe the last four years [has] helped galvanize this new wave of activism and prott, and volv activists imagg and </span><em>yearng </em><span>for a better future,” said Ng. </span></p><p>The yearng for some semblance of a jt and safe shared future is likely the one that most f this year. Queer yearng is not jt an dulgence, but an imperative: Yearn for a better world orr to see as possible, romantilly, polilly, and for yourself and others, all ways, no matter what feels possible.</p><div><hr /></div><p><em>If you ma this far: Thank you for readg! 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For fans who n turn horror-thrillers to rom-s and ss to Greek tragedi, gay yearng is what draws many of them to creative muni.

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” I was a baby gay durg the late 2000s and early 2010s, where the most accsible pictns of queer women to me were Blue Is The Warmt Color, Black Swan (lol), and the UK show Sks. "If you glance at TikTok, Twter, or Tumblr (which, sce s ceptn, has kept a home for the gays), queer yearng is everywhere.

Through very onle yearng queer ey, Jane Aten manifts social distancg, scen om Killg Eve and Euphoria and The Handmain show women starg at each other bed whout touchg, and Tumblr gays create a new visual language after porn was taken away.

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Durg the AIDS epimic, fear and illns domated gay romantic disurse; then, too, people of lor, and Black people particular, disproportnately bore the bnt of illns. That is, until s seri fale, which fively squashed fans’ hop wh a btal, queer fans are left to do what they’ve always done: fix the endg themselv wh the creative power of what drew them to the show the first place — gay the epome of gay yearng, Killg Eve failed s ma uple s fal AmeriGay yearng is both the longg for somethg that is often cidly gay flavor and the projectn of that longg onto how different characters feel for one another. For fans who n turn horror-thrillers to rom-s and ss to Greek tragedi, gay yearng is what draws many of them to creative muni — often llectively referred to as fandoms.

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”Tom Hardy plays Eddie Brock Venom: Let There Be PicturHannibal isn't the only murro “rom-” that queer fans are gatherg around ’ve also drawn a number of parallels between Hannibal and Venom, a 2018 Marvel film whose 2021 sequel openly acknowledged the romantic unrton between the eponymo alien symbte and s journalist host — another example, as wh Killg Eve, which the queer subtext fans are ed to has been elevated to popular fan-ma Venn diagram suggts semi-jokgly that Hannibal, Venom, and the FX vampire s What We Do In the Shadows all share a “dangeroly pennt relatnship between a man-eatg monster wh heightened sens and a weird human man, ” “actors on-board wh gay agenda, ” and “t4t” (a relatnship between two transgenr people) creator of that Venn diagram, Bug, is an artist who first started sharg fanart bee of their strong attachment to openly queer characters Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz) om Brooklyn Ne-Ne and David Rose (Dan Levy) om Scht's Creek. But while the characters meant a lot to them as a young gay teen, they later found that their wholome storyl weren't enough. In shows like Hannibal, characters that read as — or are — queer aren’t forced to repent or reem themselv (or die) orr to fd acceptance and a world where queer people are alienated, hunted, and feared, shows that allow anti-protagonists jt like them to survive giv queer fans a chance to virly transcend even the most hostile of circumstanc they face their own fans are lookg for shows where, stead of fallg prey to the bury your gays trope and killg off s queer characters, as Tumblr er @bluelona put , “the gays bury everyone else stead.

7 percent fans like Bug are lookg for stori that go beyond beg gay high school, and beyond addg a queer and/or trans character jt to fill a quota. ”Of urse, when creators of a show tentnally prerve this lack of rolutn an are-they-or-aren’t-they-gay pairg to entice a queer dience whout ever liverg on s promis, this is nsired even queerbag don't tomatilly negate the space fans need for generative art.

Yearng: A Gay Story, or YAGS for short, is a eeware Visual Novel by Bob Conway about alg wh the trials and misadventur that e wh beg a closeted gay man startg his first year of llege, cludg but not limed to: makg new iends while keepg touch wh old on, not flunkg exams, tryg to e out to one's fay and new iends, stomachg the terrible food on mp, and yearng for other men who may or may not be YAGS, you gui the player character, a gay man you get to name, through his first semter at llege and ci how he spends each day. All Gays are Promiscuo: Averted wh most of the game's gay guys, but Dan wears this trope like a badge of pri and will want to keep thgs non-exclive even if he velops genue feelgs for you. All Gays Love Theater: Discsed by Jam, who ments that many people assume was easy for him to e out bee of his theatril profsn even though wasn't.

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Yearng: A Gay Story, or YAGS for short, is a eeware Visual Novel by Bob Conway about alg wh the trials and misadventur that e wh beg a … * gay yearning meme *

Armoured Closet Gay: Carlos starts out as que vol about "psy" beg one of his ma hobbi, but you n tch him checkg you out durg several of your possible scen wh him. He eventually out as gay to you and Adam, and adms that he slept around wh women so much bee he hoped would somehow make him straight. The Bully: Robert, who throws around homophobic slurs and attacks anyone he remotely spects of beg gay and beats up Ellt so severely that Ellt has to be hospalized for weeks and still suffers om seizur even after beg released om the hospal, jt bee Ellt tried to suggt that he accept his brother's sexualy.

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Intertgly, ’s mentned that Robert didn't e to be like this until his brother me out as gay and he didn’t know how to handle . You n back out of two opportuni to tell Adam you're gay, but the third opportuny has the PC ci that he really n't keep chickeng out about this and your only two optns are to say that you're gay or to say more directly that you're not terted women which Adam still realiz the full meang of. Closet Key: If you hang out wh Carlos a lot, he adms after g out as gay that you were the primary factor that ed him to be unable to ny his te sexualy any longer.

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Fratbro: Subverted wh Adam and Carlos, who are at members but f almost none of the stereotyp associated wh atboys: Adam is an telligent, open-md pre-med stunt who joed the at only to make iends and starts spendg creasgly more time away om the at hoe due to feelg like he don't f wh the other people there, and Carlos, while more of a womanizer and slacker than Adam, don't like gettg dnk, is more Brilliant, but Lazy than outright dumb, and has no problems beg iends wh a puter science geek like the PC and also spends creasgly ls time at the at hoe after he out as gay.

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Adam also ially thks that you're jokg if you tell him you're gay at your first opportuny (and didn't show attractn to him), before he realiz you're ser. Gayngst: The PC starts out havg told only his bt iend Ja about his sexualy bee of his fear of what might happen if he out to his parents or anyone else.

Carlos and Jake both stggle wh g out to their iends and are eply aaid that their fay might disown them if they knew about their homosexualy.

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Carlos particular has the most gayngst-filled route, wh him takg a long time to get fortable wh beg open about your relatnship and takg Robert beatg Ellt to unnscns very badly wh him lamentg that uld have easily been him the hospal stead of Ellt. If It's You, It's Okay: If you manage to get Adam’s secret endg, he nfs to you that he lik you even though he don't like guys general or thk of himself as gay or bi.

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In the epilogue, he still don't thk of himself as gay or bi but you n assure him that don't matter as long as he's yours.

Ladykiller Love: Dan be the gay versn of this trope towards you if you pursue him, and Nate also be this towards Jake if you don't pursue the latter. Mistaken for Gay: If you nvce Adam not to sleep wh Ashleigh and Leigh, Ashleigh plas to Leigh that "you always pick the gay on". " Kiss: If you've been makg mostly assertive/snarky choic, you get the optn to kiss Robert durg one scene where he's harassg you and Carlos wh homophobic sults.

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